Korea Open | Parupalli Kashyap beats Daren Liew to enter quarters and keep Indian hopes alive
Parupalli Kashyap has entered the quarterfinals of the ongoing Korea Open badminton tournament in Incheon on Thursday after a win over Malaysia’s Daren Liew. Kashyap will next face the winner of the match between eighth-seeded Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting and Denmark's Jan O Jorgensen.
Indian shuttler Parupalli Kashyap advanced to the Korea Open men’s singles quarterfinal after a three-game triumph over Malaysia’s Daren Liew in Incheon on Thursday. Kashyap prevailed over the Malaysian 21-17 11-21 21-12 in a contest that lasted 56 minutes. The 33-year-old is the lone Indian left in fray in the BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament after a horrendous show by the Indian contingent.
Kashyap had registered a comfortable 21-16, 21-16 win over Lu Chia Hung of Chinese Taipei in the previous round which lasted 42-minutes.
The 2014 Commonwealth Games gold-medallist will next square off against the winner of the match between eighth-seeded Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting and Denmark’s Jan O Jorgensen.
Earlier, World Championship men’s singles bronze-medallist B Sai Praneeth bowed out early from the tournament. He had lost the first game 9-21 and was trailing 7-11 in the second when he chose to retire because of injury. While World Champion PV Sindhu lost 7-21 24-22 15-21 to Beiwen Zhang of United States in her opening-round match, London Olympics bronze-medallist Saina Nehwal was trailing 21-19, 18-21 and 1-8 against South Korea’s Kim Ga Eun when she was forced to retire due to illness.
Indian men’s doubles pairs of Manu Attri-B Sumeeth Reddy and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty also lost their matches on Wednesday.